The Telephone Girl and the Lady
5
17 minutes
1/6/1913
Overview
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.
Cast List
Mae Marsh
as The Telephone Girl
Claire McDowell
as The Lady
Alfred Paget
as The Telephone Girl's Sweetheart
Charles Hill Mailes
as The Girl's Father
Harry Carey
as The Thief
John T. Dillon
as The Grocery Man
Madge Kirby
as The Telephone Operator
Joseph McDermott
as The Jewelry Salesman
Kate Bruce
as The Lady's Friend
Gertrude Bambrick
as The Maid
Lionel Barrymore
as The Desk Sergeant
Walter P. Lewis
as Undetermined Role